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Category: Jean Baudrillard

  • Joyce, Bruno, Baudrillard and the coincidence of contraries.

    MUSEYROOMS AND MOEBIUS EFFECTS: A RUIM OF HISTORY IN FINNEGANS WAKE
    James Joyce

    Interestingly, Baudrillard’s collapse of poles operates on dynamics similar to those expressed in Giordano Bruno’s Cause, Principle and Unity, whose coincidence of contraries extends binary values, like macro and micro, to such an extreme that they become equal, like two antithetical objects travelling in opposite directions on a single line that becomes a circle (8). As is well known, Bruno’s theory of the coincidence of contraries plays a substantial role throughout Finnegans Wake. Besides the fact that his name is often referenced and that merging binary values are frequently represented through Shem and Shaun, Issy and her mirror image, between father and sons, and mother and daughter–in all manner of conflicts familial or epic–the paradoxical function of Bruno’s theory surfaces in numerous aesthetic and epistemological issues in Finnegans Wake. The Museyroom, overture and prelude to all that follows, plays a pivotal role in complicating a system of differentials like past/present, factual/fictive, and inside/outside, thus exposing historiography and archive practices to the labyrinthine effects of paradox and inversion. — http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=mcfeaters

  • Vonnegut Wilson Coltrane Baudrillard Brown R.I.P

    By Fly Agaric 23. 18th April 2007.

    Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Anton Wilson, James Brown, Jean Baudrillard, Alice Coltrane mixed:My favorite things in music and in writing So honor em’ how? damn words just to start off with? Build statues and make plaques? Plant trees, label meteorites, craters And scientific principles after em’? A great big love up, a big up to em’ Cheers! Omnipotent Everyware and Nowhere: Great thoughts dispersing like Cotton seeds… Representatives and word sound power Way Post Modern like Past Post structuralist Post quantum Culture culture. Encyclopediatricks
    Vast museums of culture How to fit it all in or get it out? Huge Galactic Archives of good Word
    And good sense i think, but so different too,Together in a blogg train
    cause’ they tripped outAnd may never come back? Word deployed
    To the new world disorder Disorder like spring, uprising voices “word magic “Everywhere
    Whispering like the wind. Earth culture highlights in just 5 Cherry stones,
    5 lives 5 piles of books
    5 glasses of water
    5 great lights.”Absent without leave” where, Where are their thoughts now?A scent within leaves
    Blowing in the greening spring wind Is music here?
    Where does it go? “Unabridged” Bound as word, as writers,
    musicians knotted togetherEntering their own “WORLD”
    realms, constellations their
    Senses, all-together, playing, spinning. A full blooming, all together NOW! Read them, listen to them.
    Read them, process their thoughts,
    Listen again. Cast seeds
    East/west north/south, open your mouth. Sing of Wilson,
    Baudrillard
    Vonnegut
    Brown
    Coltrane
    A Most potent Quintet don’t you THINK? Their birth/death dates now sealed,
    Calendars edited but without end
    Of correspondences, Without end in e-space now. Messages from space
    Inner/outer and between And the numerous other worlds among Boundless stars, Death
    Has become the ultimate absurd:
    The opposite of life? LOOK between the linesThese are vehicles, blueprints, ships and portals.

    Timequake, John Coltrane: Infinity, The Third Coming, Ishtar Rising, Divine
    Song, Reality, À l’ombre des majorités silencieuses The Sex Magician’s, Sex
    Machine, I got the feelin’, Everything’s Under Control, Sex and Drugs, Ain’t it
    funky, Down to Earth, Wilhelm Reich in Hell, Transcendence, L’échange symbolique
    et la mort, Right Where You Are Sitting Now, Hot pants, Papa’s Got a Band new
    Bag, The Trick Top Hat, The Illuminati Paper’s, Breakfast of Champions, The
    Popcorn, Pass the Peas, The Golden Apple, The Homing Pigeon, Cat’s Cradle, World
    Galaxy, The Sirens of Titan, I’m real, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, Think,
    Astral Meditations, Mind power, L’échange impossible Quantum Psychology, The
    Elements, Slaughterhouse-Five, Coincidance, Talkin’ Loud, Email to the Universe,
    Universal Consciousness, Journey in Satchidananda, Galápagos, Soul Power,
    Reflection on Creation and Space, Cool Memories V, My Life after Death,
    Simulacres et simulation, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With,The Conspiracy
    of Art, Grits and soul, The Universe Next Door…R.I.P

    Kurt Vonnegut (November 29 1922 – 11 april 2007)Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007)Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007)James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)Alice Coltrane (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007)

    Fly Agaric 23. 18th April 2007. Amsterdam.

    Steven James Pratt